On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:52:33PM -0600, Brian Smith wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > The Indiana team evidently want GNU utils be preferred, and evidently > > would like to see the compatibility issues with Solaris utils fixed. > > > > I see no problem with that, provided those issues are addressed, and > > I'm sure they will be. > > If so, the "native Solaris" versions become superfluous and can be removed, > with the GNU versions put in their place. In that case, the RBAC profiles do > not need to be changed, the PATH issue is moot.
No! The preference is not to the exclusion of the Solaris utils. There will be scripts that want those, and scripts should generally set PATH to ensure that they get what they expect. Beyond compatibility with scripts there's also the freedom to NOT use the GNU utils, which I think we must give to our users. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
